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Prof Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond
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Professor of English Literature 
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2794   		Arts Building 2.50 
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Biography

I came to UEA in September 2000. Between 1996 and 2000 I was a lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen; before that, between 1993 and 1995 I was a research fellow at Magdalen College Oxford. I did my DPhil, 'The Crisis of Eloquence: Reading and Writing English Newsbooks 1641-1649' (1994) in Oxford, my BA in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia. I was born and went to school in Cardiff. 

Key Research Interests

I am interested in literature and politics in early-modern Britain, especially Milton and Marvell, and in cheap (popular?) print, pamphleteering, the book trade, and the history of newspapers from the seventeenth century onwards. I am keen to develop work on Britain in its European context. Having just completed Milton’s Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination (OUP, 2010), and the edited volume The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, vol. 1: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660 (OUP, 2010) and being on the verge of completing a collection of essays entitled Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700 for Palgrave … I am now beginning to edit Milton’s 1650s Latin Defences for the new Oxford Complete Works of John Milton. The edition will situate them in their international political contexts, and show the interaction of English polemic and neo-Latin writing.

I  am interested in supervising dissertations in any aspect of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing (high literature and cheap print), history, and the book trade. I am open to suggestions, and there are several projects in the above fields towards which I would like to guide potential students

Past Research Projects and Grants

Project Title Start Date End Date Funding Body
Milton's Angels: The Early Modern Imagination 17/3/2008 13/7/2008 Arts and Humanities Research Council
Voix de dieu/God's Voices: Prophetie en France et en Angleterre 31/5/2007 2/6/2007 British Academy
Angels and epic in early modern Britain 1/1/2004 31/12/2005 Leverhulme Trust

Teaching Interests

At UEA my teaching variously includes:

 

LITE1F01: Literature in History (lectures)
LITE1F03: Reading Texts (tutorials)
LITE1F22: Concepts in Literary Studies (lectures)
LITE2Y04: Shakespeare
LITE2Y13: Seventeenth-Century Writing: Renaissance, Revolution, Restoration
LITE3Y03: Literature and Revolution, 1640-1660
LITE3Y14: John Milton & Lucy Hutchinson: Republican Politics and Poetics
LITEM024: John Milton: Revolution and Restoration (MA Module)

 

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Publications

  • Joad Raymond, 2010, Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination, OUP, (ISBN: 978-0199560509).
  • Joad Raymond and Lauren Kassell, 2010, Conversations with Angels: Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700, Palgrave MacMillan, (ISBN: 978-0230552036).
  • Joad Raymond, 2008, ''Angels and the Voice of Prophecy in Early Modern Britain'', in Line Cottegnies, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille, Tony Gheeraert et al (eds.) (ed), Les Voix de Dieu: Litterature et prophétie en Angleterre et en France à l'âge baroque, Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle.
  • Joad Raymond, 2007, News Networks in Seventeenth-Century Britain and Europe, Routledge, (ISBN: 415464110).
  • Joad Raymond, 2006, '"With the tongues of angels": Angelic Conversations in Paradise Lost and Seventeenth Century England', in Peter Marshall and Alexandra Walsham (ed), Angels in the Early Modern World, Cambridge University Press.
  • Joad Raymond, 2005, The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649, Oxford University Press,
  • Joad Raymond 2004, 'Describing Publicity in Early Modern England', Huntingdon Library Quaterly, pp. 101-129.
  • Joad Raymond 2004, ''Complications of Interest: Milton, Scotland, Ireland and National Identity in 1649'', Review of English Studies, vol. 55 (220), no. June, pp. 315-45.
  • Joad Raymond 2004, '‘Seventeenth-century Print Culture’', History Compass, vol. 2, no. 1,
  • Joad Raymond, 2003, Pamphlets and Phamphleteering in Early Modern Britain, Cambridge University Press,
  • Joad Raymond, 2003, 'Irrational, Impractical and Unprofitable: Reading the News in Seventeenth Century Britain', in Kevin Sharpe & Steven n. Zwicker (eds.) (ed), Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England, CUP. 374
  • Joad Raymond and Graham Parry, 2002, Milton and the Terms of Liberty, Boydell and Brewer,
  • Joad Raymond 2001, '‘Framing Liberty: Marvell’s First Anniversary and the Instrument of Government’', Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 3-4, pp. 313-50.
  • Joad Raymond, 1999, News, Newspapers and Society in Early Modern Britain, Frank Cass, (ISBN: 714649449).
  • Joad Raymond, 1993, Making The News: An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England 1641-1660, Windrush Press, (ISBN: 900075538).